Month: December 2017

This most recent part of the process began in 2015 when Montana gave the BLM a wish list identifying more parcels than was necessary to satisfy the debt, roughly 16,000 acres spread across Chouteau, Custer, Fallon, Hill, Prairie, Richland and…

They say the most harmful gas is methane, and the largest source of methane emissions is cattle. As a result, several states are considering proposals to tax livestock. One common version introduced in several states would levy a tax of…

That law was intended to prevent the looting of archaeological and Native American structures and objects, and it gave the federal government an expeditious path to do so. Unsurprisingly, its use has evolved into a federal power tool for making…

The grazing allotment used by the Finicums, until the BLM kicked them out, is covered by the Grand Canyon Parashant monument. Therefore, if that monument is reversed, then it will be easier for Jeanette Finicum to recover her grazing allotment…

"When a replacement plan would have cost us $3800 for an even worse plan, we had two choices: One, go without insurance, putting our daughters at risk, or two, go on the exchange." Carrie Couey by Marjorie Haun A recent…

...Bundy describes himself as "a forty-four year old man; happily married with eight healthy children" and says he has been repeatedly forced into solitary confinement. When he has refused to be strip searched, Bundy "has been forced to endure no…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday there's "no doubt" he is visiting Utah to talk to people about the controversial Bears Ears National Monument designation, which he said lays at the heart of a 45-day interim review President Donald S.…

It's worth noting that the areas targeted by Obama in his waning days, including Bears Ears, Gold Butte, Nevada (the location of the Cliven Bundy family ranch), Cascade-Siskiyou, on the border of Northern California and Oregon, and others, are rural…

By 2050, U.S. farmers and ranchers must rise to the challenge of feeding 2 billion more people than we feed today. We are fully ready to meet the task, but we cannot do so under the shackles of excessive, superfluous…